Ten days ago Patrick Wyman posted on the Nile before the Kings. Long before the New-Kingdom Fir'awnûn. In fact - says Wyman - there was no Kemet, no House Of Ptah (Aigupt). There and then were tribes of herder. These entered the Neolithic only in 3800 BC, says Wyman. Up to then they built cities... for their dead. Starting 3600 BC, I guess because population-density allowed specialisation, they were mummifying their dead deliberately. Like the Chileans.
The Nile came to urbanity later than the Mesopotamia did. Maybe even than the Balkans. Therefore they got there faster. The Scorpion Kings were on the scene by 3150 BC and already, as Wyman notes, Egyptian as we'd know it.
This may explain how their Resurrected God - elsewhere barely even myth - got fossilised into the religion, and remembered. Their scribes were not so removed from their origins as first-generation farmers.
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